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What does Deuteronomy 5:28 mean?

"Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken."

— Deuteronomy 5:28 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

25

Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.

26

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

27

Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”

28

Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.

29

Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

30

“Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’

31

But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.”

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